@Hunter_Weiss It won't be easy for the pilots of these planes—they’re going to get nauseous! P.S. But if you replaced the cable with a rigid tow bar and imagined four planes, you’d actually have a very interesting solution: fly there quickly, hook up, lift and reposition the load then unhook.
@elonmusk Could someone with access to Imagine generate a video showing a Falcon stage crashing into the Moon today—viewed from the lunar surface, from a distance of ten kilometers?
@elonmusk When the Soviet Union was collapsing—falling apart and smoldering—USAID was one of the organizations that kept Soviet people from starving. All those rosy-cheeked bloggers have no idea what it’s like to starve. They ought to try it.
@emm0sh Bro, you seem a bit angry. Nobody’s saying that force and moment distribution replaces solid engineering intuition, but checking out all the possible shapes and feeding every reinforcement option to the AI—that’s pretty cool, bro.
@aviationarchive There were two problems: an extremely complex and lengthy transmission system that was never successfully mastered, and the personality of General Designer Yakovlev—whom other general designers gleefully trampled upon after Stalin’s death.